Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about the movie, it's kind of a mix between melodrama and cinéma vérité. This involves ideas about playing the role of yourself and the movie of your life and all these other things.

In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.