If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

Substance should outweigh perfection.

It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.

Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Faith only grows through suffering.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.