I MAY NOT BE MUCH ELSE IN THIS WORLD BUT I GUARANTEE YOU I AM GETTING INTO RAPPER HEAVEN.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position