Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster.

Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster.

I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.

I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.

Those are some pretty big hits.

Those are some pretty big hits.

I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a read more

I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a manager would send a pitcher ahead to the next city to wait for his team. I wanted to give Will the opportunity to do that. Why sit around for five months doing nothing? I figured she could be up there scouting out the hotels and restaurants and sightseeing tours for us.

It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in read more

It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in the NHL] it seems like some guys don't expect it sometimes, so I get those shots in when I can. It differs from team to team.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,

There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we read more

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.

We can play with anybody in the country.

We can play with anybody in the country.