There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.

Meditation is culture.

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.

I'll never forget my friends and where I came from.