I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.
Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.
There's more to a picture than meets the eye.
One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.
Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.
I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.