I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

The good times are killing me

Apologize!That's the least you can do to try to make right something you have wronged.

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

Don't be afraid, you can do it.

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.