The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I cant figure out what from.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

Its true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so its not surprising that its so difficult to address.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.