I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

Show your compassion to people in their life time

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

Style doesn't have seasons.

It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.

I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.