Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.

I know that I am absolutely blessed beyond belief!

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

If you believe in the project, you have to support it.