Just ask yourself what record you played over and over again when you were depressed or what record made you really happy? Those will never change and you should never be embarrassed by it.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

A band is like a family. There's love and hate.

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

Music is a potent energy force.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.

If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

Being a dumb is better than being a dummy

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

You have to take everything as it comes.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

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