Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

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.

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.

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

A blood line is something you're born into. A Family is something you create.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

We need statutory spending limits written into law.