I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

‎A change of work is the best rest..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

I don't do live things..

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you..

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it..

I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment in which I found myself, and jo….

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past..

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

It is poetry that changes everything..