We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

It was at that moment, that even though she'd thought it before, Finley realized that Emily was a bloody genius.

People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.