If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

When we separate music from life we get art.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture."

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in between whether we know it or not.

The first question I ask myself when something doesnt seem to be beautiful is why do I feel its not beautiful And very shortly you discover there is no reason.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see something to hear. In fact try as we may to make a silence we cannot.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

Since 2002, there has been a wave of attacks against Jewish 'persons or property' in France, a great many of them committed by young men living outside Paris, in the vast ghettos called les banlieues.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

I would love to try trends from the '60s and '70s and on but still keep my look modern and young.

I've always been interested in this idea of looking at these monster stories and trying to really understand the mechanics underneath. That's very much true of this movie I made, 'All Good Things,' as well as 'Catfish,' which I produced.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

The drum makes a great fuss because it is empty.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

What we do is just race hard on the track every week. That's the way I'd like it to be documented, and if we watch the tape, we'll see that the No. 48 swerved into us first and I know that, before even watching the tape.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Wear a belt! It's an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.