It’s important to love in hip hop.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

You can be passionate about anything.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.