I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.