I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.

Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.

She [Beyonce]is probably the closest thing we've seen to Michael Jackson as far as having that determination and drive that I've ever seen.

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.

Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.

All creativity is a work in progress

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

Donald Trump has many ads about Hillary Clinton's character and it's fair to look at both.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.