When we are confident, all we need is a little support.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

To play a wrong note is insignificant

It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single “David” standing with God, than a million “Goliath’s” standing without Him.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.