"I believe in old-school—writing songs that last."

The best leaders are those who can turn vision into reality.

The genome is a mosaic of time.

"The pursuit of knowledge is not just about finding answers, but about asking the right questions."

The desire to be desired is the most powerful thing in the world.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.