If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

There are no musically untalented people.

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

Time heals what reason cannot.

A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.

I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.