I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.

Everything is practice.

What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

No fair, sky. I'm the one who feels like crying.

Gotta get it, even if it's in the worse way. Got cake like everyday my birthday.

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.