If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

I am no one to be a purist.

Tick Tock Tick Tock...The clock strikes two ... still haven't got a clue.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.""And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible