It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away." I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.

I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice.

You must stay focused, concentrating on the work at hand. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.