"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing"

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

"Music is my religion"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"