I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.

St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

Habits are more powerful than fears.