I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

I am a hooker with a heart of gold.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.