I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.

For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.

I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.