Everyday do one thing to move you in the direction of your dreams.

Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.