I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.

Sometimes you just have to say, “...I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens.” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works.

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.