I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot, ” I say.

There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.