The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Walking the streets of New York, a lot of people are cheering me on. It feels good.

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.