These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of white

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.