“I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.”

When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame

And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.

There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.

They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.

Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and i eat it every night. When i go grocery shopping, i try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I’m on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely ‘local’ cuisine.