Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.