If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

I am tired before the concert not afterward.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

Be happy for no reason, like a child.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.