“Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they’re rapping. It’s easier to try to censor some kid who’s swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.”

When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.

If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

When you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

I’m an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.

You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

Heard you told him that you’d love him ’til the end of time. Now that’s the same thing that you told me.

My stepfather stepped in where no man would’ve stepped in – six kids, five of them boys – and that’s heroic.

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.

I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don’t even speak Spanish at all.

Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.