You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William WordsworthBeing an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon

Being married or having children does not mean you are living an effective life

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

Body is not all. Mind is not all. Spirit is not all. All three make the sense.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.