I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

You can’t perform well in what you don’t love to do well. You can lead in what you can’t perform well. To lead well, be sure where you are, is where you supposed to be!

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Mary, I give you my heart. Always keep it yours. Jesus, Mary, always be my friends. I beg you, let me die rather than be so unfortunate as to commit a single sin.

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.