If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

It’s up to you to make your dreams real.

Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank

I have to wear a new T-shirt every night. I throw them into the audience. One day I'm going to go around the world and reclaim all my T-shirts

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.