Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
And when I say it, they get alarmed. . . 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.
Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.
Music should be some kind of nourishment.
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
[Change is] the only evidence of life.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.