I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

You have the power within you to make your world a reality.

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that? Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.

Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?

We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.