I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?

If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act of listening is and to how powerful the act of listening is.

I do think of myself as a taste-maker, yes, absolutely.

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.