“We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.”

If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

I didn’t have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?

You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn’t happen.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women’s and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-’70s.

I’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.

If we are truly each other’s keepers, let’s support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.

There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up.

Finally brothers and sisters; whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That’s what its about at the end of the day.

However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I’m an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens you will end up disappointed.