Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Love the one you're with.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

No one laughs at God in a hospital.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.