The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?

At time of peace, we should love one another.At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.

Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.