Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

What’s so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they’re being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

There is no gambling like politics.

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

Rock music is niche.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.