But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly righteous.Listen to these people, before the Earth repents of mankind.

If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

I—What on earth just happened?” “Well, nothing on Earth, obviously.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.