Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.