Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.