My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground."

I think we all have a role to play in life.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.