Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.