121 Quotes by Questlove

I’ve always been a lover of hoodies. I’m a guy that travels a lot. I’m a guy that spends a lot of time on a cold air-conditioned tour bus. I’m a guy that likes to watch movies in peace. I’m a guy that likes to travel in the airport in peace.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality.

It’s easy for me to say, “Oh yeah, that’s the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they’re afraid.”

It’s funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it’s hard for me to dissect my own thing.

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred ‘Simpsons’ quotes, like, ‘What you know about the monorail?’

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It’s more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, “1, 2, 3, 4.”

I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before ’68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I’m not going to make it, you know, I don’t have any hope.

Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It’s a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I’m in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I’m not a man of wealth.