You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

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.

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

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.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

God has blessed me with more than I need. I'm rich. I will not trust in riches but in Him who richly provides. Because I have more, I will give more and do more.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.