I like lots of bands, and I LOVE fewer, but the list is still lengthy. I rarely pick a "favorite" because I think that's for laypeople who don't understand the infinite possibilities of music.

If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?

Knowledge is not always power.

You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.

I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.

I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.

I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don't get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember this next time.

Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.

I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With them, it will never, ever be simple. And then they do or say one little magical thing and they own me.

I'm awful at hiding it when I'm miserable. Sometimes I think if I were better at it maybe I'd be able to fool myself. Trick the misery right out of me.

Short prayers pierceth Heaven.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.