I try to move people emotionally.

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.

Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.

You only live once. Maybe twice.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.