There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.