So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.

I think everything obviously comes from experience of some kind. It's more about if you closely adhere to that experience or if you extrapolate from it.

I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.

I believe in currently unexplainable things, magic can get dicey.

Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.

Personal healing on all levels - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.