As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Everyone's connected but no one is connecting.

Still we remain, still we fight. Still we strive, still we survive.

Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.