We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

It's not what you have to "do" that needs to change. It's first how you "think" that needs to change. It's who you have to "be" in order to "do" what needs to be done.

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.

The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J. J. Greene Quotes.