Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.

If we dare the difficult, we shall find the depth of being.

All real living is meeting.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.