Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."