What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

We're not getting any younger.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But really, there's so much culture, the music's great, the food's great. It's not good for the waistline! But I'm actually from the South, I'm from Georgia, so the weather doesn't bother me.

I'm just happy when people want me to work for them.

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

For many many people getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

Even boredom has its crises.