I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life.

When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.