You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.