"Music was my refuge. I could crawl..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'”

“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.”

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

“We rappers are role models.”

“If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.”

“Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.”

“Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.”

“...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”