“I don’t think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.”

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.

There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She’s so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it’s a hit.

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you’re left feeling hollow and empty.

It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn’t do things right and had a poor business model.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.

There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that’s fine, no problem with that.

Before I go on stage, I pretend that everyone loves me.

Yoga carves you into a different person – and that is satisfying physically.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.

Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don’t have that microphone or who can’t rap.

Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It’s embedded in me.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.