I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer.

I don't ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.