Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

People want transparency in government.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.