I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

The market didn't define the music the music defined the market.

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.