What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.