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"I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative."
"I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way"
"Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion."
"You only know that you’re in love when you suffer."
"The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master."
"There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove."
"I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble."
"If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness."
"The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict."
"You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction."
"I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique."
"It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be."
"Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres."
"I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it."
"I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different."
"Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined."
"A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on."
"When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song."
"The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork."
"I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing."