You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.

There are rules that are so blatantly broken on 'Contra,' like structures of harmony and texture.

I feel like I've had this ability to infiltrate, as an outsider and an insider, different groups.

Sometimes I say things in interviews and then I see them in print and I think, "What an asshole."

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

I support the troops with every fiber of my being. I don't support them having their lives wasted.

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.

Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.

I have a squash casserole that everybody, even my kids, love. I won't tell my kids how to make it.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I’ve always wanted

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.

When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.

I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

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