There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

The guy you don't see will kill you.

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantic.