You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.

As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.

Try to feel God in any little thing you do or feel. In a laugh, a smile, a tear, a revelation-a kiss.

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.