Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...

I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.

Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.