I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

The lamp of light.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.