Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.