Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

And think not that you can direct the course of love for love if it finds you worthy directs your course.

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.

There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.

The summer solstice is a time for strength and vitality for action and movement.

Because there is a law such as gravity the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isnt purpose its a branch of purpose but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them "deadlines".

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

I just liked the idea of being engaged.

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

A lot of people made their first luxury fashion purchase, but at a discount. And that made it an easier purchasing decision.