Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful.

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.