I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Kanye West is my favorite artist.

Children make your life important.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

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.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Music is in my DNA!

A true man hates no one.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.