I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

To me, beauty is a lived thing.

There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

If someone hurts you, to take the revenge, love him.

Men....do you have a plan for your business? Tell your wife, be honest. If you lock her out of your plan, she will become malfunction.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.