I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

There is a rise after every fall.

I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...

Never place your happiness in someone else's hands because if they walk away, so does your happiness.

You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?