When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

The graveyard is an everlasting resting place.

Life gives you what you are deeply longing for.

I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.