Out of the work comes the work.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

Ted Cruz has been playing an ad about me that is so ridiculously false, no basis in fact. Take ad down, Ted. Biggest liar in politics.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.