Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have