I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

World peace is really inner peace within each individual mind.

Religion is a tool used by wicked people to twist other people into doing the things they want them to do".

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naïve hope.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

Every love song I write is for Linda.

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.