We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

For your life to count, you need to begin to live for others

It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.

The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.

The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.