AIM Celebrity Interview http://music.aol.com/artists/aim_celebrity_interview/john_mayer (November 2005)
2013 Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c
“Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.”
Voices in the Wilderness The Guardian (Saturday 28 September 2002).
"Phone Home"
1990s, Tha Carter III (2008)
“Officially I've been crowned as Hip-Hop's Historian.”
Blackouts
20s A Difficult Age (2017)
“Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it”
From "Hip-Hop"
Album Black On Both Sides
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Context: Self, person, living being, and life span are four notions that prevent us from seeing reality.
Life is one. We do not need to slice it into pieces and call this or that piece a "self." What we call a self is made only of non-self elements. When we look at a flower, for example, we may think that it is different from "non-flower" things. But when we look more deeply, we see that everything in the cosmos is in that flower. Without all of the non-flower elements — sunshine, clouds, earth, minerals, heat, rivers, and consciousness — a flower cannot be. That is why the Buddha teaches that the self does not exist. We have to discard all distinctions between self and non-self.
“Hip Hop is prosecution evidence/ The out of court settlement/ Ad space for liquor”
From "Hip-Hop"
Album Black On Both Sides
“I call [my music] ho-wop. It's the flavor of hip-hop, the flavor of doo-wop, and hoes.”
Quotes from interviews
One Time 4 Your Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)
Chris Cornell Flashback Q&A: 'We Have to Be Aware That Life Is So Short', Yahoo!, May 19, 2017 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chris-cornell-flashback-qa-aware-life-short-023857577.html,
Solo career Era
