I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

Anything that requires thought is just too much.

I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.

Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky.

Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.

Audiences are craving intricate and intelligent stories that keep them on the edge of their seats.

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

Born to fight. Learn to win. Live to help.

In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark