"No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins."

"I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn."

"I like critics with strong opinions."

"Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes."

"My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health."

"It is a enduring truth that strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town."

"Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach."