I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

And I am revealed for exactly what I am - a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.