Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

Substance should outweigh perfection.

It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.