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“As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.”
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“I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.”
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“It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead of this rambling march of verses, Rick understands that music needs hooks. You need that repeated chorus, that everyone can sing along to.”
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“God, the king of artists, was clumsy.”
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“I did two or three plays every summer.”
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“We still wading in the water... Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water. Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father, Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver. Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler, Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar.”
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“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.”
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“Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.”
