"All writers have the idea that they are famous."

-- Heather O'Neill

“Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.”
“I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
“I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.”

Source : "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.
“It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for every song - it's so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want - and I've always worked to make it all connect - for all of it to feel cohesive.”
“I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
“I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The art of victory is learned in defeat.”
“How would you know? Everythingâ€™s like sex. Itâ€™s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?”

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