Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.