I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?

If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act of listening is and to how powerful the act of listening is.

I do think of myself as a taste-maker, yes, absolutely.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

A happy one will do her best to make you happy but a pathetic one will convert your life to a pathetic one

You are definitely too blessed to be walking around with a heart full of grudges.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

Frankly, I don’t care what others say.

I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.