What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.