I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

It seems like people need to get into the last album until they can tolerate the next one. And then, slowly but surely, by the time the new one's available, they've gotten into the last one and they really love it.

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.