“Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.”

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.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God.

You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.

I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”

There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.

Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

The best form in which to worship God is every form.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

The best thing about Valentine’s Day is that if you don’t have a lover, you badly remember to get one!

Forest is the best port of the wise man!