If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is ….

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thi….

Just make music; don't talk about politics..

I dont like the idea of spirituality done the way its done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or ….

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else..

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes..

Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch..

I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes….

I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there..

In my head I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, Damn, that's a pop song! I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as ….

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore..

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing..

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring..

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me..

The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terri….

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other..

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi..

Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," ra….

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart..

I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-m….

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault..