Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

You must tell your money how you want to live your life, and not the other way round.

Just one act of kindness can change someone's whole world.

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

A blur of great magic is still just a blur.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

We have it in us to be splendid.

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Please Mr. Trump: Say what you mean. Mean what you say.