The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle.

I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.