Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.