When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.