As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life as well as the hardest thing in your life.

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

Friends ask why youre crying. Best friends already have the shovel ready to bury the loser that made you cry.

I think there's a bargain in every garage sale - not as much as there used to be, but they're still there.

We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.

You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America.

I like surprises.

I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible God.

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.