Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

You're always you, with your own insecurities.

The only person to blame for your situation is you.

The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Believing that your parents are always right.

For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.