If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

Faith is not won by arguments. Faith is won by an experience of love.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: Receive the Holy Ghost. And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

C'mon, Tabitha. You stabbed me the night we met without even blinking. (Valerius) Yeah, but you were a dirtbag then. (Tabitha) I think I'm offended. (Valerius)

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.