My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

I still have joy in the midst of struggles.

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one

Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.