I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.