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

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.

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.

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

When you told me, “You are my star, ” my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are hate-crime people.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.