“There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.”

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don’t really let negative vibes stay too long. It’s worked out. I got a great family, great kids.

I’m always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who’s just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.

You can do anything in the world if you say “Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it. It’s an easy way to escape responsibility.”

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.

Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.

Either push your limits or die.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

As an artist, it’s never really enough. You always want to strive to get bigger and better and push the limits of what you can actually do.

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.