You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

You have to know that your real home is within.

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

The only music I don't like is bad music.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

The process is the most beautiful part.

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

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.