I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.

What’s wrong with just talking? Isn’t that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.