Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.
Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.
There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.