When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on..

It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the part..

The things which must be must be for the best..

I have always been afraid of banks..

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness..

Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….

He who would travel happy must travel lite..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

You can put anything into words, except your own life..

A woman is more than the sum of her parts..

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read..

Everyone is either happy or dead..

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like..

We were searching for ourselves in each other..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the cali….

Every thing is of the nature of no thing..

I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur..

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen..

Whoever makes sujood to Allah properly, will never make sujood to the duniya..

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!.