Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

I am going to give you my heart now, " I whispered. "Please don't break it again.

He couldn’t grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands.

Life is a matter of choice, while death is a matter of time.

By his stripes you are healed.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.