Washburn’s an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

I grew up in Pennsylvania, only fifteen miles away from Daryl where all the local kids with a German background looked like he did.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn’t afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

I think it’s just a lack of ability, we’re incapable of writing hits.

It’s so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn’t really know anything about at the time. Later on I’m starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

I’m really just a country boy.

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

I’m definitely not ready to move into something else. I’m having so much fun.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed – like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it’s important that we use that voice wisely.

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

Today, they’re just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.

Hip-hop isn’t as complex as a woman is.

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music...

With radio limitations as far as length of songs and content, sometimes if you are being conscious of that then that effects the outcome of a song.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

I’m always excited about the fresh stuff.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn’t much that can be said right now.

I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.

I’m passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings – it’s all a miracle.

You know, it’s just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.

If you take any populated place – any major city in America – and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you’ll be in about as country a place as you’ll ever...

Almost everything I’ve done, I’ve done through my own creativity. I don’t think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about...

We’ve had producers who’ve all shared at least one thing. They’ve all recognized that Tom and Mike write great songs and that’s what it’s about.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn’t have religion.

I never smile unless I mean it.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

If you don’t have a story that will hold the audience, you won’t have a successful show.

I’ve known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

If you think about the history of Hip Hop we’ve had artist who can talk about from socially significant ideas to something as cool as sneakers.

I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican-I’m an American, I’m a human.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it’s salvation that you want?

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

This is the time it all starts, I’m telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

We had all remained good friends, but musically Hillel felt he was growing in their direction and they were having more success than What Is This.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn’t need more instruments, so I didn’t use them.

Having ten melodies was also a huge challenge, because I usually have three – sometimes just one or two, but often three that I’m using.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you’re supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain’t going to be in the movie!

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

As far as we’re concerned, if we’re not obviously working, you can bet that we’re somewhere underground working because we never stop.