The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

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!

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

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.

Miracles can only happen when you expect miracles with all of your heart.

My strength is in the Lord. In him, I breathe, live and move.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Never try to justify your failures based on your luck. You just didn’t work hard enough!

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

We'll do it right. You'll be proud of our country again.

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

Human life commences at the time of conception.

Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.