The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.

Theres a harsh reality nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow and grow fast.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

I love my creature comforts.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

Part of me is very shy.

You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.

This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

I don't get bothered by fans.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.