When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.

Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing both the technical and the social risk.

Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.

Death is the principal limitator of opportunities, progress & life.

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.