I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall