You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

It's not the method, it's the mindset.

Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

No one can keep you down except yourself.

It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

If you look for problems, you will find problems; if you look for solutions, you will find solutions.

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

Nah, " I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done and what the limitations are.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Every experience has its element of magic.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.