I radiated with all the stars in the night sky and the courage of a thousand men ran through my veins.

Songwriting was their way to converse with the universe.

I don't want to wake up and find out it was all a dream.

It will be a lesson in hope.

You have to take what you can get out of the music. It's different for everyone, but you have to pay attention and appreciate each piece in order for it to speak to you.

To me, guitar notes are the most beautiful sounds in the world.

Life is either the same song you sing day in and day out, or you go out into the world and devise your own soundtrack.

Soon it will all be a memory and memories decay and deform over time.

I had no idea what the lyrics were in the song, but his voice wrapped around my head, weaving through my hair, and whispered into my ears that made me drunk with a feeling I never felt before.

I hated goodbyes. It felt like I had to give so many of them away lately.

Maybe one day we'd become fiction.

A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

We’ll meet the meat.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.

If you find something that works double down on it

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.