"Apply true focus to what you do best."

“Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.”

“It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.”

“Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.”

Source : "Scott Rudin Dresses Down NY Times Theater Reporter" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 04, 2013.

“I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.”

Source : "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

“Beware the hobby that eats.”

“Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.”

“Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future....”

“I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy”