Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.
I influence people - hopefully on the positive side.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.
I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"