Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I’m the king of the anthems.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

As for my stuff, I’m just doing guest verses for other people’s records. I try to stay recording, because if I don’t, I get rusty.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I didn’t have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I’ve been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don’t need to write a book for adults.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Music is something no one can control.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I’ve loved reading all my life.