Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Don't try to reach God with your understanding that is impossible. Reach him in love that is possible.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

You told me there wouldn’t be any Rod Serling voice-overs, yet here I am in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, and let me guess the title of it, Night of the Terminally Stupid! (Channon)

My love is like a tire iron.