Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.

I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself.

I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do.

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies - my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like Fargo.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.