Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

When [Japanese] women encouraged men to bask in public glory, it reminded me of the way you would indulge a child with a sweet-bean treat.

Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself.

There is/no reasoning with need.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times