Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.

Emotions must not be part of the decision process: decisions must be clinical and well calculated.

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

I wash my hair after every shoot. If I'm not shooting I can normally do it every other day. I always follow my tailored haircare routine and stick to that, and I always get great results.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.