If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of the details of what you're doing along the way.

The major cause of problems are solutions

Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.