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But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.