It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.