I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.

As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.