If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them stronger.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.