If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to. "
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.
Girl you are a beauty. Well, I am a beast. They must have been trippin to let me off the leash.
[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.
Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.