I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.

The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps.

I'm always trying to experiment and come up with new palettes of sound and new combinations of music that you haven't really seen or heard in film before.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.