There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.