I’ve always been an outsider, and I think that’s why people connect with my music.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

The beauty of physics lies in its ability to explain the complex with simple principles.

Architecture is not about form, it's about many other things.

A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.