I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well

You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development.

I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.