I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.

I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.

I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.

As long as you keep yourself in love with people, you can transcend time.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.