I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

You can only be a control freak when you have weak people around you.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

I effortlessly let go of my density and dance forward into infinite bliss.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Tomorrow is a parallel day.

All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.