I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Everybody has a purpose.

When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I grew up in a funny way.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.