“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.”

“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”

“It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.”

“Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.”

“Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.”

“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”

“When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.”

“One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.”

“I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.”

“Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.”