I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

You've come to me now at this point in time, when The Neptunes are just now getting our light.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

In order to protect the physical hygiene and mental health of the living we usually bury the dead.

Guilty people answer questions with a question.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Golf is a very, very frustrating game.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

I don't spend a lot of money on myself, really.

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