Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

Good taste is not the birthright of snobs, but a gift from God sometimes found in the unlikeliest of people".

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?