If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

Well, we'll know better next time.

All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.