I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very very expensive.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.

Personally, in real life, I'm a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

Don't limit your audience.

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.

Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.