Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.

I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.

Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it.

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know.

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.

What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.

We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.

I'm very happy when I have time to just be.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

On the other side of worry you find hope

What a glorious God?

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.