I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

I like down-to-earth people.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Don’t do your best, do my best.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

You're my depth gauge. If I see your hat floatin', I'll stop.

We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.