The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.

If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.

All creativity is a work in progress

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. …By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.