In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements.

Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.

Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.