Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?

There is often no line between perfection and evil.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.