I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. – From 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

I guess I'm inspired by other people who are successful.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.