Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we sell stuff, and not only did it change America's cultural landscape - it's also this incredible metaphor for a market-based economy. The great pyramid scheme that America has become. I felt like in were larger themes in terms of culture and economics that could be addressed.

What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that way; we didn't kill him because of anything he did, we don't kill off actors just to do it.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.