These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

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

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Love is only one of many passions.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I write all of my own speeches.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.