I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Step into the light and create your own shadow.

The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.

Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the people who elected a tyrant like you or let the country rise phoenix-like from the ashes.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.