Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

Trends come and go, but cool is forever.

If people are saying you’re wrong that’s probably a good sign that you’re a genius.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.

I think kids today are going to look at their Facebook postings like bad tattoos one day.

The luxury of relaxation ... is part of the healing process.

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.