I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.

Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are.

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

It is beautiful to own your own destiny and be able to do what you feel in your heart. To have that and not do it? THAT is crazy to me.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.

It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.