I have quite a broad taste in music.

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.

I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.

You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

The days you work are the best days.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

Ive still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.

Oh, no. We can’t have that. Where you going, Mr. Meanie-Pants? You don’t hurt people then run. That’s just rude. Can the Simi barbecue him, or is he on the ‘No Simi’ eat list?” – Simi

When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause and effect, beginnings and ends, don't have any impact or relevance.