That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how

I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.