Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

“You just can’t be calling us fakers and pretenders and non-creative and say we can’t freestyle.”

“No matter who committed the crime, they all yell at me. And the media is greedier than most. You could sell ‘em your soul and they’ll be on ya till a nigga’s a ghost.”

“I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I’m supposed to be.”

“You can never “just be friends” with someone you fall in love with.”

“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.”

“It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other.”

“Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.”

“America wants its respect.”

“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”

“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”

“If you could walk a mile in my shoes you’d be crazy too.”

“I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.”

“No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn’t glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It’s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.”

“Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”

“They got money for the war but can’t feed the poor.”

“What people do for the struggle of power is madness.”

“Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end, no matter how hard we fight.”

“I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real.”

“I know death follows me, but I murder him first.”

“Ain’t a woman alive that can take my momma’s place.”

Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.

So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

“This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.”

“Unconditional love. Talking bout the stuff that don’t wear off, it don’t fade. It’ll last for all these crazy days, these crazy nights. Whether you wrong or you right, I’ma still love you, still feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with unconditional love.”

“I know what good morals are, but you’re supposed to disregard good morals when you’re living in a crazy, bad world. If you’re in hell, how can you live like an angel? You’re surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That’s like suicide.”

“I don’t want it if it’s that easy.”

“It don’t stop ’til the casket drop.”

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

“I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”

“Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, realize, real lies.”

“We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart.”

“Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?” -Tupac Shakur

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.