I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution!

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.