When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

He who hath many friends hath none.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

O, had I but followed the arts!

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.