When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set of muscles.

I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world.

If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

My fear is if i lower my mask will people accept me?

The reason why employee relations have lost its sheen in aiding productivity, is to be searched for, within the doors of your corporate structure, i.e. your human resource department.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Glory is like a circle in the water