Pastoral Resources

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?