I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.

Who doesn't love a little Taylor Swift in their life? You know you need a little Taylor Swift in your life.

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.