I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

Being ready is everything.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.