I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

Relationships are built on trust.

My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

Gluten free pizza elicits the same response at a hollywood party that a pile of cocaine did in the 80's.