Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!