After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.