I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

My father was a beautiful man.

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.