My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about.

Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.

You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.

I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

Never complain, proclaim positive-words.Then, you will possess the divine grace for a change situation.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

Every beginning is difficult, but it gets easier from there on

Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.