What song is it you want to hear?

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]

I think what's cool about about going on a co-headline tour is everyone's bringing a huge show, so it's not like opening band, opening band, then here's the big show. It's like two big shows.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.