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

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.

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."

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.