I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

When you are here, God is near.

You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.

Peace with God brings peace with each other.

Yes you may come." Paris held up a hand to delay Myrina's raptures. "But this time you will not be wearing my crown. You will be my slave, and believe me I shall enjoy ordering you around.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.