I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.