People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man

Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.