When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.