For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!

To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure.

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.