Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

We are sons of God, called to reveal God, to make him visible on this earth

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.