I always put a little bit of restrictions on myself, and I only do it for my creativity.

If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

Oh, if we would only remember who God is!

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.