A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god.

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.