I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.