Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

Show me a Great Man and I will show you a Woman of Substance

Clouds shed the agony of the sky and rain concludes it by covering us in filth. What do you think about the puddles of mud and traffic jams? I so hate rain.

I love humanity but I hate people.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.