I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.