Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.

Equality implies individuality.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the 40s.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Music is the soul of language.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.