No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

What you feed your mind, will lead your life.

I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

It's been said that commitment is another name for success.

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.