"Elvis died the day he went into..." - Quote by John Lennon

“Love is the Answer. What was the Question?”

“And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. … If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors.”

“I want it to sound like an orange.”

“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.”

“I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.”

“Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.”

“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.”

“Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.”

“Noble fathers have noble children.”