To do more for the world than it does for you — that is success.

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery.

Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

The first hit in a game is the thing that knocks everything out; whether you're nervous, you're over-thinking stuff, it definitely helps.

When I go to hotels, sometimes I find waiters and people who do not address me as 'Mr.' or address me as a normal guest would have been addressed, simply because my name is Maddy. I find that slightly offending, but I don't react to it thinking that maybe the name is so casual that people think it's a buddy that you are talking to.