Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
Where rational thought is overcome by the strength of physical attraction. This feeling will draw words from the pen that one doesn't even know exist. This feeling will make one combine words that don't go 2gether but just sound so good U not only read them, U can smell them. (Reflecting on that straight up animal lust feeling)
But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.
If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they're gone. They'll come back.
I have a writing addiction.
Music is real. It affects people; it's real.
I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Like books and black lives, albums still matter.
My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.
Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.
Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.
There are no great jazz-fusion bands.
My bankers are very happy with me.
Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.
'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up.
If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.
Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote.
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
