Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.