“The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.”

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

So many books, so little time.

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.

The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich. That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

To me absurdity is the only reality.

You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.

I guess you’re not gonna be happy til’ it’s for real. Four year old kids, doing drive-bys on Big Wheels.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

Mister, I don’t want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don’t even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain’t looking for no trouble, Mister.

My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half.

I wasn’t terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn’t terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.

Every child needs a safe place to fall – a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment.

I do know the older I get, the more I’m referencing music I heard as a kid.