There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don’t deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

Sex has spoiled Daryl but not success.

Our perception of songs that we’ve written… the meaning changes from day to day… to whatever stage we’re at in our life and careers.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

It’s just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Fake it until you make it.

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I’m playing.

I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

So what if I’m smokin’ weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It’s not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It’s a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin’, you know what I’m sayin’?

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

We have talked about that a lot. Something I hear my Mom say a lot is that we don’t want to give up our souls and gain the world. It isn’t worth it.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it’s a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to...

If you bleed Black Label and you’re going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

I think the women – Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu – are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

There are a few people I’ve expressed interest in working with. It’s amazing to me that all these big names want to work with me.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But… all the time I’m watching the country music horizon. And I’m sayin’ ‘Lord, is...

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different… different personalities and musical tastes.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

You can’t sing about love unless you know about it.

It’s okay to be crazy, but don’t be insane.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it’s really possible to have tasty stuff and it’s better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can...

Unfortunately we are arguing amongst each other so much when the bottom line is we don’t own anything. We are offspring to a record label owner.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called ‘For Better or Worse,’ and it’s basically about unconditional love, which is, I’d say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

The end of 1996 and beginning of 1997 brought a Pearl Jam European tour and the beginnings of preparation for the recordings of “Yield.”

A problem is your chance to do your best.

Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

There’s kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don’t know exactly what that is. So,...