You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

There is no greater hell than realizing you're in love with the guy you hate.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

Collaboration is when you find somebody who, literally, complements and gets you that you can work with. Collaboration is when you really, really want to work with somebody.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.