While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

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

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Never take anything for granted.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Life is a song to me.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!