Open your heart and love and be loved, my mother still loves me. She's 96.

The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.

I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.

When I find a short-seller, I want to tear his heart out and eat it before his eyes while he is still alive.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.