If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

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