Sublime

my 1975 album, Mellow Madness,

We often think of life as a series of events that happen to us. As a result, we neglect the fact that it’s often a series of actions that we do to ourselves. Having grown up under the guidance of jazz cats back in the ’40s and ’50s, I’ve seen and done the hard drug route, and I used to smoke four packs of cigarettes in a twenty-four-hour period. Co

I simply started with a desire to make the best music possible—music that touches the soul and mind. Music, and art as a whole, is a strange beast. You can’t see it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, but you sure can feel it. I can never predict the outcome, or how people will react, but I can tell when a piece of music gives me goosebumps.

It’s never cool not to know. I tell the hip-hoppers that all the time. We can’t afford to raise a generation of creators who think they’re the only people on the planet or the first ones to inhabit it.