I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.

If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

To control yourself, control your fear first.

He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.

Some Americans just shouldnt leave the country.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.