I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you.

Take a step in the right direction and you will find your smile again. It will be there beaming by the light of God’s amazing grace.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.