“Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.”

One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.

Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’

Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.

You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.

The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.

The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that’s clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.

Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.

All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life.