"My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame."

“I see the glass half full...but of poison.”

“Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.”

Source : "Master of Revels". www.newyorker.com. May 3, 2010.

“The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.16, New York Review of Books

“In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God.”

“I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay, I don't understand his world but I do understand that he's part of mine.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Sports caster Dale Hansen discusses the motivation behind his defense of Michael Sam". Interview with Catherine Morpeth, fourtwonine.com. February 13, 2014.

“I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.”

“How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.”

“I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.