Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Nothing can stop you from achieving your goal-all true success depends on you- The thing always happens that you really believe in

They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island.

Light is a masterpiece, but is of little value if you are blind.

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.