All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

I am afraid I shall not find Him but I shall still look for Him. If He exists He may be appreciative of my efforts.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.