I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

A tank full of life and a running tap.

There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence!

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.