“If you love your dad, its tough when he dies. If you dont like your dad, its tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didnt get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.”

“That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.”

“I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.”

“I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.”

“I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.”

“Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.”

“Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and ma...”

“School should be the best party in town”

“Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.”

“I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.”

“I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.”

“I've said my patience is not infinite.”

“World is not like what you see”

“What you see is what suffices you”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”