Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

When you’re under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer’s

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.