What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I've become, but that game had so many emotions involved.
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.
My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.
It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
I'm not an open person. Something's really got to be troubling me to have heart to heart talks with anybody.
I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
The true success is the person who invented himself.
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.
Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.
