a room without boooks like a body without soul

I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good. If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.