Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

True love knows no boundaries.

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.