For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I sell escapism.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

I spend a lot of time reading.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

What a nice night for an evening.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Going home helps the content.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

I like to take it easy.

I’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.