I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."

I am made of light; I am made of stars.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.