CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness..

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people....

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, pro….

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever ….

Try to let what is unfair teach you..

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you..

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap a….

We are who people think we are..

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrific….

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio.

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do..

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the tr….

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible..

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out..

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't..

I don’t really mean what I’m saying..

You get to decide what to worship..

Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice..

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell..

It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind t….

How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean..