I'm happy with what I've achieved..
It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things..
No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously..
Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go..
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster..
Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked..
I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered..
Don't uncork what you can't contain.
If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point..
I don't join or leave things lightly..
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed..
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….
I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles..
Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us..
When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process..
You'd better stop readin' and writin' and start hittin' !.
Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously..
What you're looking for, you won't find. But only by looking for it can it find you..
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy..
I always thought that I was me — but no, I was you and never knew it..
In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..