The ‘Goonies’ are a close knit group. They believe in themselves, even though there are doubters throwing darts at them outside…’Goonies never say die.’ That’s pretty in line with the mentality of our team.

I gotta have lived through some stuff. I gotta make my mistakes. I gotta win enough to get the wisdom part and then I gotta lose enough to speak honestly.

To me, it all goes together so well, ’cause it’s all so me. I never had a conversation with myself about ‘Oh, this fits,’ or, ‘This doesn’t fit.’ It was just, ‘I like this feeling, I like this feeling, I like this feeling,’ create a loose structure for what it could be, get together with musicians who are sensitive and caring, and go for it.

There's a reason that the opera and ballet have been around over 400 years, and I think that when you have access, you have opportunity to be a part of something, it can change your life.

Our words do much of our thinking for us; we are necessarily manipulated by them.

Without some blues, ain’t nothin’ happening. If you don’t dig the blues, you got a hole in your soul.

We're eliminating the distractions and debris. No more DEI, no more dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, or social justice, or political correctness, we're done with all of that.

A terrifying line is being crossed.

President Trump asked me to put him over the Constitution…I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the US.