All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!

In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!

All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.

Stuck in traffic is not an excuse. It's a sign of bad planning.

I think that I'm the same Jan Brewer I was when I first ran for office way back in 1982, which is a few years ago. I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern. So, I'm the same Jan Brewer.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

I had a spectacular four years as OpenTable CEO and remain an active executive chairman. I think, for me, some of the interesting observations there are, you know, global is important, mobile is extremely important. And then, network businesses are very attractive.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

One must not play on the nose of a sleeping bear.

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

If men could see us as we really are they would be a little amazed.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Never trust anyone but yourself, because in the end that's all you're going to have: yourself.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

I'm not in business to make money.