Where we are is vital to who we are.

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels.

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.