I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

Adventures suck when you're having them.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.