Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy none at all. It's money driven everybody tryin' to make that cheque nobody putting art in their albums any more.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington D.C. which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Everybody likes a kidder but nobody lends him money.

I'm not sure about the selling part but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else I owe money.

If there's something that can be formulated regulated give you security then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Always remember money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them they must be doing everything right.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes which is nepotism the old-boy network.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

In the seventies a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money no market and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.

Of course I do everything for money.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

A lot of people in the media and some everyday people really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.