There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

Just be happy and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say "I used everything you gave me."

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Just eat less and exercise more.