I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Marx himself wrote that capitalism produces above all its own gravediggers. Do you think that perhaps he wasn't talking about capitalism?

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

We don't know our own story.