I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.

Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.