I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I suppose listening to a double album is kind of like going to the chiropractor... It's pretty good for you but you can't force it on anyone else.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

The true essence of greatness is in finding self in selfishness

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.