It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

Could I be jealous of the way he was touching my horse? Yep ... I was.

Eternity is the end of the end.

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

I'm not even worried about the Internet, that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that.

I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.