So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.

We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.

We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.