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“Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.”
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“Simplicity and complexity need each other.”
Source : John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.45, MIT Press
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“If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.”
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“One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”
Source : George Leigh Mallory's letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921) as quoted in Walt Unsworth "Everest: The Mountaineering History" (p. 47), 1981.
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“It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”
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“Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.”
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“Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.”
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“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”
