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Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

I'd like to release solo songs on a regular basis, but it's pretty difficult for me to finish them.

If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.

My wife is from Copenhagen and her father has been a huge Liverpool supporter since the early 1960s.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

But first be a person who needs people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

That's the difference between me and a lot of rappers. So many are unfit, just puffing all the time.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.

I'd done plenty of dark stuff and edgy stuff and hardcore stuff, and I kind of found that stuff easy.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.

If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

If I were scared of rednecks, I would've moved on a long time ago. That's not a fear I struggle with.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

I have very sensitive skin and every time I have a facial it makes it worse, so I tend to avoid them.

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.

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