The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them.

It's been amazing to watch, because for Thor, which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.