What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.

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.

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.