Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

WAKE UP NOW...You will become a history one day...Even if you are most important, most powerful, most wanted or most influential individual on the planet. THAT’S IT!

We are all the gods and devils, hiding under the human skin.

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

I love to do Pilates, boxing and even just going on a run. I do cardio twice a week as it's important for people who want to eat lots like me! I do Pilates ones a week.

The coward is an object to be pitied.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.