Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Peace begins with a kind gesture and Namaste.

Autumn is hereand I am in love.My heart has taken residence in my mind.I pick the crisp ochre leaves and put them in my pocket.I am in love.

Dying isn’t like living

Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

But I just want to be known for my football.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.