I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.

It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?