I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying
Art does not come from thinking but from responding.
Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.
A responsible person is one who responds.
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator
I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.