Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

The I is the soul, which endures.