All of my writing is God-given.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

I dwell in possibility.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Language is the dress of thought.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.