By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

With each tweet, post, share and comment, we are building and adding to our digital iceberg.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

Leave at night and you reach Australia next morning. But it took 28 years for an Indian PM to come to Australia!

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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