"I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career."

“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”

“Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.”

Source : "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.

“Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.”

Source : "'Politics in Arizona Have Become Fueled by Hate…Driven by Anger': Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Shooting of Giffords". "Daily Show", www.democracynow.org. January 10, 2011.

“Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.”

“I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.”

Source : Eddie Rickenbacker (1967). “Rickenbacker”, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall

“And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.”

“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”

“They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?”