"Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business."

"We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them."

"You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology."

"If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs."

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

"Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?"

"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."

"I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change."