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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."
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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."


"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."


"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."


"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."


"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."


"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."


"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."


"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
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