Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return.

You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

Jim Rohn is a legend. Millions of people around the world have benefited immensely from his teachings.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

We must come together with one heart, one mind, one love and one determination.