Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants

You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State