Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

If I persist long enough I will win.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.