The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

Heaven will always support your godly move be it a righteous cause or be it a desire to see people free from what has held them down.

Maybe I can stalk you again sometime.” “Absolutely.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

We could have chopped down the sycamore with this.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.

All poetry is political, to some degree.