Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.