I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

Technology changes nothing.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!

I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don't think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.