Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

I am the epitome of what you dream to be and the reality of what you can't be.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can't shine through.

We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.

The future for Commander Tool Belt was not looking so hot.