The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

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.

I love having my hair back. It is so important to how you feel, how you dress, how you look.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.

I like surprises.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

I don't know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

To enjoy a peaceful & beautiful life, we should open our "EYE" and Close our "I".

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.