I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies.

If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.