"Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things."

"It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else."

"Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema."

"I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal."

"The true measure of a man is the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular."

"The foundation of joy is the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."