I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.

I still define myself by the places that I've been.

It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.