"I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall."

“I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.”

“Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.”

Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

“I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.”

“When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.”

“To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!”

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”

“There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.”

“I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.”