It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

I worked for a lot of directors.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.

A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It’s totally exhausting

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body it just wears it out.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.