I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.