I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Clancy had taught me well.

There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

We need to live the life that we say we believe in.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

I'm obsessed with being human.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.