‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

I love movement. I love moshing.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

What goes up must come down.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.