Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, OK, its the first of recording this album. I like to avoid that.

I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.