Happy can make you money, but money can't make you happy.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie Boys would sell 10 million records or DMX would sell 6 or 7 million records. Those records are one thing, but then all the other ways to exploit the emotional relationship between artist and community is so much greater that I would guess that they're making as much or more money than they could have ever made.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.