Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.