I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

I'm completely hooked on polo.

A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!

Your next victory is behind your next test.

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the show in a different direction.