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?

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?

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

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

Christians at work in the world are the only real spiritual light in the midst of great spiritual darkness. This places a tremendous responsibility on all of us.

Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.