Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud.

For every character, I think about who they are, their story, what they are, and who they were before their game started. What was their life like? Where did they grow up? What were their parents like?

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

Baking is fundamental to the Jewish culture. Every holiday has its own food.

One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.

Music helps not the toothache.

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

You dont need a silver fork to eat good food.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Once wealth and beauty are gone there is always rural life.

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.