All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Time and need compels to trust strangers even for a specific time

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.

Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.