"Our passion is our strength."

"School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?"

"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon."

"In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way."

"The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home."

"The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house."

"It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself."

"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."