"I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music."

“Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.”

Source : "BigDaddy's Rules: Raising Daughters is Tougher Than I Look". Book by Steve Schirripa, www.today.com. May 7, 2013.

“It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.”

Source : Source: underthegunreview.net

“I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.”

“Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.”

Source : Song: Pink Houses

“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

“Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.”

Source : Ned Sublette (2004). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.537, Chicago Review Press

“Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.”

“So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.”