“Poems are rough notations for the music we are.”

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

Try something different. Surrender.

Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.

Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.

When you’re a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school, it inspired me to keep going.

The experiences I go through, everything you hear in my lyrics is real. Good or bad, I take it all in and put it all on the mic.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

I don’t listen to my own music, so to me, it’s awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn’t connect with everyone. I’m more appreciative than anything. SZA

You find out about me because of my music, and that’s how I want to keep it.

My music is me letting the world know how confident I am in myself, and me basically telling other women, and guys, how confident and how comfortable I believe they should be.

I rock shows by myself. Ain’t no backup. Ain’t no help.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.