dunn Quotes

“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

“Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.”

“My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.”

“It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.”

“I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.”

“Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.”

“I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.”

“Happiness is making your dreams come true.”

“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.”

“I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.”