To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Prayer is the starting point for every decision you make.

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.