As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus.

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words..."Thy will be done."

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.