There's No Retirement For An Artist,its Your

You Don't Become An 'artist' Unless You've Got Something Missing Somewhere. Blaise Pascal Called It A God-shaped Hole. Everyone's Got One But Some Are Blacker And Wider Than Others. It's A Feeling Of Being Abandoned,cut Adrift In Space And Time-sometimes Following The Loss Of A Loved One. You Can Never Completely Fill That Hole-you Can Try With Songs,family,faith And By Living A Full Life...but When Things Are Silent, You Can Still Hear The Hissing Of What's Missing.

The Job Of Art Is To Chase Ugliness Away.

When You Truly Accept That Those Children In Some Far Off Place In The Global Village Have The Same Value As You In God's Eyes Or Even In Just Your Eyes, Then Your Life Is Forever Changed; You See Something That You Can't Un-see.

The Strangest Thing Has Happened. I Really Missed My Dog. That's Never Happened To Me Before. You Know, On A Long Tour You Do Hear People Saying They Miss Their Pets. I Never Have. But Last Night I Started Really Missing My Dog. It's Very Odd, 'cause I Don't Have A Dog.

As Hard As It Is, As Ghetto As It Is, Hip-hop Is Pop Music. It's The Sound Of Music Getting Out Of The Ghetto, While Rock Is Looking For A Ghetto.