I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Never fear to ask what you truly want. You will always get exactly what you desire.

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.

I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have.