“I did a project on immigration, which is something that has always been close to my heart. For me, immigration was the way to evolve, to make people better.”

I didn’t go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.

I always feel like I don’t know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.

Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.

When I get back into the city, it doesn’t matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed.

You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

I think we all just love to be together and there are just not enough reasons to be together.

I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don’t want to live with them. It doesn’t make a city.

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

My style has changed and evolved mainly because I’ve grown to have more confidence in myself.

We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.

The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation.