When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

We ain’t going to curse anyone, ” said Granny firmly. “It hardly ever works if they don’t know you’ve done it.

I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.