The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.