"I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there."

"I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times...I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come."

"You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like."

"You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'"

"If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by."

"Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."

"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."

"I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary."