Honestly I don't like to write songs that often, only when I feel like I need to and when I've got something that I really want to sing about.

Yeah, I'm a fan of the Blue Jays. It's hard. My sports interest has definitely decreased since we've been on the road. It's really hard to follow.

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

I prefer being curious, mischievous and clever black monkey to being filthy, greedy and bad mannered white pig.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.