I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Beer makes people deaf.

I live a life that most girls only dream of.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

Niggaz need guns, too.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.