My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.-Bono

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, I've fought terrorists and won and when we get back in the White House we will fight terrorists and win again and America will be safe.

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.