Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more peo….

I could have coached better..

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form..

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone..

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world..

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong..

It's not personal, it's strictly business.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention..

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics..

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it..

What you put your attention on grows strong in your life..

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life..

I'd say I am partial to women..

I started to earn money because we didn't have money..

I never starved myself..

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves..

You cannot conceive the many without the one..

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I di….