A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.

If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

Work backward from your goal.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

I work differently than most people.

The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Realism and art cannot live together.

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.