Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here.

I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

I want to be famous but unknown!

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]

I will not retreat I will find the strength to reach my goal.

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.