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..
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..
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically..
I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!.