A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

Stand up for what you know is right.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

God has been with me in my whole career.

I was put here to sing.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

Forget being a bad failure, use Cosmic Ordering and be good at success.

When you anxiously await to emerge from deep darkness, you will realize the beauty of light.

You are person with a goal

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.