There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

‪You would not be able to manage millions of dollars well when you are not managing thousands of dollars ‬well

They blinked in the dusk of the setting sun, a reminder that light was a recurring state.

No wonder God chose this dark land to send prophets to, for a candle only shines in the dark.

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.