I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.

The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

If I'm lucky, I can do a facial once a month.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.

I was very studious and square in college.