There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.