All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.

And does he like blondes, as well?'Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had. 'No, he prefers, dark haired women. You've nothing to fear from the Sentinel, Nicola.

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.