What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

We're not getting any younger.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen comedy actors are maybe juniors and dramatic actors theyre the cool seniors.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

Grace is knowing that there is nothing you can do to make God love you more. And there is nothing you could ever do that would make God love you less.

A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.

We all have our strengths and our failings.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!