We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

The same song on a different day was a different song.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

Dynamic benign neglect.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I think President's candidates need shock collars or something.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?