The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee -I find I can get a lot done that way.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.