I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

All realities, all dimensions are open to me!

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.