I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.

What separates courage from fear are the thoughts we choose to believe.

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence

I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.

All disease begins in the gut.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers