I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

The secret to becoming wealthy and successful is thinking wealthy and successful!

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

Stability means respecting precedents.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly. "Everyone, follow Lassie.Timmy's in the well.

I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.