“Just keep putting out music.”

That has to collapse. It’s the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through.

All of it has an effect.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face ’cause I love to do it

I’m not just talking about what you put on a record – even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

People need to be more aware of how they’re affecting people.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny.

Some real well thought out stuff. But I don’t know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

I think every person has the ability to affect change…through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn’t have said sampling.

It’s pretty easy to see that… wealth doesn’t really equal happiness.

You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.

Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.

It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.

As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.