We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass during the sign of peace.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator and should be tried at the Hague for international war crimes, the United States should not militarily overthrow him.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.