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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Lying is the new truth.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you.