Rap is not music, it's talking.

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.

Music's for grooving man, and music's not for puttin' yourself through bad changes, y'know? I mean, you don't have to go take anybody's shit, man, just to like music, y'know what I mean? You don't. So... so if you're getting' more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y'know, it's just music. Music's... music's s'posed to be different than that.

The truth is there was a golden era in music from 1962 to 1978 - after that it all went a bit tits up. I blame the fucking drum machine and the fucking shoulder pads of the 1980s.

You can do whatever you like with my image, my music, remix it, re-release it, whatever... just never make me boring.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.