Existence Quotes

I started doing shows in places that I couldn’t pronounce, didn’t know existed, and I’ve seen people that didn’t speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, “This is the type of music that I want to do.”

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.

I trust the universe. If we exist for each other, time will bring is both back to our beginning.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Existence is an imperfection.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.