It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

I don't really yell at people.

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I hope I say this the right way, but I'm convinced that Israel will not trust other countries to do what they have to do to protect their own security.

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

Where the apple reddens never pry lest we lose our Edens Eve and I.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

The blues comes right back to a persons feelings to his daily activities in life. But rich people dont know nothing about the blues please believe me.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

To every thing there is a season

The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

We must honor, protect and support our police officers and their families every day of the year.

I just want to support my mom. I have everything I need. I don't need to buy anything.