When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Liberation is not deliverance.
I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.
Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even a dogma, which is today called, the "tragedy of the commons" which holds that if things are held in common they are going to be destroyed. If they're privatized, like you give them to Bechtel or Monsanto or ExxonMobil, then they'll be preserved because that's the capitalist's religion.