Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I'm obsessed with books.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

When there faith, the world is balanced.

A righteous husband is a responsible husband.

That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.