Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

I think you create your own hipness.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

You know, you're very strong" Nicola said."Thank you.""That's no compliment. It's your weakness. If you weren't so strong you wouldn't have to take it and so you wouldn't.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

I'm a big believer in the whole world of sports.

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

Yesterday is rarely too early but tomorrow is frequently too late.

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.