Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.

Your subconscious protects you. It's all about listening to it.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.

It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.

Anyone who would rejoice to see someone else live a life of destruction is also, living an unrighteous life.

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

I just enjoy the ride while I have it.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.