You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

May the Force be with you.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

You win some, you learn some.

Thats what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people...because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.