I haven't seen a lot of young producers who work the floor in a traditional way.

The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.

I turn the good parts up and the bad parts down

What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

Washington's a cesspool of money.