I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Everyone is saying, "How is it with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez?" and I say, "You're forgetting the third star." And they're like, "The car?" It's totally a star.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.