Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

You can only be a control freak when you have weak people around you.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Spend your money for education

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

I feel thankful to the faithful God.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

I think I'm still clean living. That's - I mean I don't go home and have orgies or anything like that. I'm still the same person I've always been.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.