The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

There is no achievement without risk.

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

I don't want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

Once you are ready to truly devote your days and times to what your soul came here to do, you will find your life unimaginably enriched.

A month of days, a year of months, 20 years of months in the treadmill, is the life that slays everything worthy of the name of life.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.