If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.

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.

Senior Republicans certainly expected the president to come clean over Miss Lewinsky.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.