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

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.

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.

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks.

Flatter yourself critically.