I'm PUTTING everything on the line in being able to EXPRESS myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the BOX and making MUSIC for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come ACROSS different.

I GOT my FIRST patent in 1979 before I left the Air Force. I called it the DIGITAL Distance Measuring Instrument. It used ones and zeros and DOTS and dashes and a magnifying lens to read binary-encoded information from a scale that was photographically reduced. It used the same kind of technology that's used in CDs and DVDs.

I MAINTAIN my SANITY by KEEPING my DISTANCE.

The BAD SEEDS are a band I will TRAVEL a great distance to SEE whenever possible.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to DISTANCE yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are INSPIRED to ACTUALLY do something, these are moments to LEARN from.

When I GOT done at DUKE, I ALMOST felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke GUY.

The height of the pulleys from the GROUND was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had DESCENDED through that DISTANCE, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

I mean, I THINK from the COMPETITIVE SIDE, especially as a defensive back, you don't mind that pressure, going out there on fourth-and-15 or WHATEVER the down and distance.

Now from a DISTANCE, I look BACK on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of ACTION, and to act like men of THOUGHT!

You can WRITE a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the LANGUAGE. The GAP released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to THINK thoughts I had never myself thought.

There is no object so LARGE but that at a GREAT distance from the EYE it does not appear smaller than a smaller object NEAR.

I'm a firm believer in the CONNECTION between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I LIKE to RUN, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long DISTANCE. More than six MILES, and the knees start to go.

Reflecting on the past, where the FILM industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to THINK that keeping a clear distance from government AUTHORITY is the right THING to do.