I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

No one said finding Paris would be easy

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.

For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow