What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

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.

Control your thoughts to define your life.

Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Data is great, but strategy is better