My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate my bravado. I haven't been on the front lines. I haven't ever stepped on a land mine.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.