I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.

Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

Running isn't about winning or losing, it's neither about glory or achievement, it's all about not quitting.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

There have been so many majors that got away, starting at Riviera in '95, taking a three-shot lead into the final round of the PGA and not winning.

August is the month of the high sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements

People screw up your life, only when you give them the power to screw it.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.

When a judge departs from the letter of the law he becomes a lawbreaker.

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.