Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.

Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.

She [Beyonce]is probably the closest thing we've seen to Michael Jackson as far as having that determination and drive that I've ever seen.

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

Life is what you want it to be, not what others want to be

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.