All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Apparently, if you become one of Satan’s Minions, as a reward, he makes you immune to cancer, heart and liver disease.

There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.

Don't shoot fast, shoot good.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

When the people decide they want peace more than security, they will find both.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.