These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.

You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.