Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

I always wanted to go into acting.