My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

I was 8, 569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.