Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

Kill the head, the body will die.

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging.