I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

I prefer music that invents a universe.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

Are you afraid to die?'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

You know, I've had a helluva life.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

You can not define being exactly on time.

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.