I don't isolate too much or make the project my god. This helps a lot with negative ideation.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

Music is an indirect force for change

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.

Faith is in your Heart

If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

Let's go invent tomorrow...

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.