"The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity."

“If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.361, A&C Black

“Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.”

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

“I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.”

“I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.”

“The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that's what makes it work.”

Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net

“I don't have to talk. My record speaks for itself.”

Source : "MJD and Arian Foster Talk “Call of Duty,” Twitter, and Fantasy Football". Interview with Jose Martinez, www.complex.com. February 3, 2011.

“When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.”