Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

What I love best in life is new starts.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Every artist was first an amateur.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

No driver is perfect.

A good song never gets old.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.