I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

I just try and get better and better at me with every album.

For me, when I want to be emotionally moved by a vocal, I don't want to hear auto tune on it, I want to hear the beautiful imperfections.

I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.

I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

I've learned in my older age how to let it go when things don't work out, because something incredible that I don't know about yet is probably right around the corner.

If you're mourning, cry, scream and purge whatever is going on inside you emotionally. That's part of the process. And keep those that love you very close as you go through it.

One of the least enjoyable things for me to do is to talk about myself.

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

I like to leave all of my soul on the stage where I perform.

I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.

I believe the Universe desires for us to choose to love as much as possible while we are here.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.