The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

We all have pain, Wes. It isn't life without it. What matters in life isn't that we escape pain. What matters is that we overcome it.

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.