It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

Life is so complicated that sometimes it is better to pass up.

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

Judd Apatow, Conan O'Brien ... taking what you think is funny, and then adding another layer to it. That's kind of my sensibility. Those are the guys that make me laugh.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.