I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

The music is supposed to be healing.

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

A killer on the payroll isn't good for business

Radiate a Smile with a Happy Face, and you make everyone Happy, Make a sad faceand you Scare everyone !

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?

​Tomorrows dreams are important but to make the present meaningful is a far better dream.

Children don't get cheaper when they turn six.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.