I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.