If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

People have their purposes and reasons, I just wish I found mine.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself.

Be very cautious about your object of love because that is going to decide your destiny

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.