The monsters in our valley were destroyed that day. Only a very few survived. But that was all right, because we didn't need monsters anymore. We had become them.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Take no moment for granted.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

I find the more I DJ, the more ideas I have and the more music I want to make.

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.