"I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people."

“You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.”

“People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.”

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“When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.”

“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”

“Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind.”

“Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.”

“I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.”

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”