Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

No act of love is ever wasted.

The key to branding, especially for smaller firms, is to focus on a limited number of issue areas and develop superb expertise in those areas.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Music is the pathway to the heart.