It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering

By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the new usual…

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Nothing is as invisible as the obvious.

I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.