"It seems to me that some releases these days are so collab heavy to the point the artist seems like a guest on their own album and then fans look out more for the collabs than the stand alone tracks from the artist."

“The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.”

“Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.”

“Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.”

Source : Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

“For me, the moral dimension of life is that you are committed, to doing everything that you do, with a sense of excellence. That is the morality of writing, that you try and write as excellently as you possibly can. Or of teaching, or of childrearing, or of friendship. Of anything you do. And, I do try and live, as best I can, with all of the errors that I make, y'know, a value-driven life. And that is defining values as trying to give everything you do, everything you've got.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.”

“Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.168, Oxford University Press

“The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.”

“I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.”