I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I believe that music is God's voice.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...

A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.

Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.