"To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow."

“Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.”

“A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

“I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.”

“If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.”

“No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.”

“I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.”

“Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.”