I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

More than the disappearing trees and roses, it’s the human tendency to suppress the ‘Natural Voice’ of the ‘Nature’s Man’ which is sorrowful.

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

If you're 1 of the 3 girls in pics with a greaseball whose arms are around you at a club you lose at life. If you're the greaseball you win.

Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

The war brought out all the art in me.