Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

Before you live, love. Before you expire, inspire. Let your love be an inspiration to someone to also love another and together we build up a happy world!

That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.

The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last