You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.

Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

It’s the simplest things that can convey a message….

how many times had I begged Mom to divorce him already?

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

Since my initials are J. U., people called me Ju. Or Jujube, like the candy.

Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.