I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Love is cure, love is power, love is magicof changes, love is the mirror of divine beauty

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."