If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

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.

One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari)

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.