I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

The same song on a different day was a different song.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

Dynamic benign neglect.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.