Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

When you touch the moon with beloved eyes, you behold a glimpse of an amazing life.

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.