I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

There are 3 ways of handling a situation. You can either become part of the problem, part of the solution or part of the pavement..

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Success advances the man's cause, adversity cleans the man's soul.

We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

I'm thrilled to death with life.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

Hang with people who support and uplift you.