I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

I don't feel this overwhelming pressure to play or to 'make money.' That's not my driving goal.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

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