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

Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.

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

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

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."

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.