Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

I think there's always room for people to hear different styles of music, especially when it comes from the heart.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.

This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement.