Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Weber, ... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

Believe in God, the Creator of all possibilities.

In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures.

Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.

I've got a serious-looking head.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.