Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Here's a picture of me with REM. That's me in the corner.

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.