At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids." But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.