Substance should outweigh perfection.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

The world is thinningand the earth...it's still spinningmy world is thinningand it’s all because of one person I’m missing.

Holding my hands in his, David kissed my knuckles before he swore to me, “I will love every day of the rest of my life.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.