Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

Love is a choice, love is an act of will, you can choose to love.

I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.