I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.

I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.

When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how to keep it rolling for as long as you can.

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health.

There are two kinds of persons which cannot be trusted in this world : the ones who do not greet you with a firm handshake and the ones who do not eat prawn heads.

Music’s a wood you walk through.

It's nice to play someone who is naive.

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.