I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Every child should be nurture with great love. The feeling of great love promotes wellness and potential for greatness.

Riff needed the pain in his body to mask the pain inside. Once he'd enjoyed the pain only because it brought pleasure with it, but that distinction had gotten lost.

Everyone is made differently and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

Donald Trump is an "America first" guy. He said, "We protect everyone else's borders but our own."

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.