If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.

Don't talk. Kill it."That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

Don't drink too much.""When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop.""I'll have to get a shorter name.""I'll have to forget how to spell it.

To conquer the dangers of giving up, do what your passion moves you to do.

Ignorance of ourselves must be folly.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

What's going on outside? It was really nice - all the fans out there with big signs.

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.