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.

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 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.

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.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

Never do what the devil provokes you to do

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

What the hell am I doing here?

I will not live without love.