You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.