I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.