Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

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.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.