Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.

It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.