I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

What was stolen must be returned

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

I love being in the studio.

Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.

Where there's tea there's hope.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Congratulations to Bill and Hillary Clinton: this weekend, 33rd wedding anniversary. How about that? And you thought the Iraqi war was a never-ending conflict.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

There is not in sight any source of energy that would be a fair start toward that which would be necessary to get us beyond the gravitative control of the earth.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.