"I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21."

“I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person ...”

“If you can get the audience to talk to the screen, I just thought that was so cool, and I wanted to do that. And I just leaned towards the scary and the thriller. I find it very emotional. I want to make emotional horror. If I can make you cry, than you have a full experience.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.”

Source : "Jake Shimabukuro: Ukulele Virtuoso". "The Next List" with Fredericka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.

“I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.”

“How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.”

“We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the way they should be, the future is pretty dim for the human species.”

Source : "Onondaga Leader Oren Lyons, Pete Seeger on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 9, 2013.

“It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.”

“Even good people are obliged to deceive.”