Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.