How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.

...Everything you hate is everything that you created.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head spinning all the time.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself

Everything you have is bought by the currency of time.

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things.

I would have to say that my style is simple, with a splash of swagger and a little sartorial as well.