My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Evil must always be fought.

I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.

People don't want other people to be people.

For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Just consider some of these recent hacks, JPMorgan Chase, massive bank, had 73 million e-mails stolen.

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.