A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything."

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.