"The first listen is very important to me. Half of my favorite records just hit you in the face immediately with something memorable and within three-and-a-half minutes you know you've heard something really special. I want to make records like that, but it's a big challenge."

“He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.”

“I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

“Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.”

“Revenge is fruitless.”

“An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.”

“Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.”

“When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.”