I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn’t leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)

There is no kingdom like the forests.

When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.