"I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge."

"I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life."

"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."

"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."

"In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements."

"For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'"