I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

Yes!" He says. "Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.

he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips

It’s only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it’s totality, that we realize that love is everywhere

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.