“Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there’s no viral action on your music, you’re just not good enough. Don’t get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.”

It’s a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it’s a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

Marijuana grows naturally…Don’t you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don’t know, unnatural?

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

You’ve got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it’s blowin’ and snowin’ as well as when it’s sunny and smooth.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.

It’s not so much a question of whether we’ve shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?

Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It’s been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.

I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.