You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.