I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

He smiled. "How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular.

Man is the centrality of God’s purpose on earth

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

I have the same group of friends I've had since I was three.