I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.

To have a flexible, open, clean mind, you have to do three things: exercise it, accept new ideas, clear out the clutter. Be willing to change your mind when it needs changing.

If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you've just made a difference.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past.Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand.

I wish I could play like Roger Federer.