Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.

I want to be as gracious and thankful as I can because it has been a long road.

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

No, Karl, not now. Take it easy. It’s our happy day.”Poul-Erik’s MotherThe Informer by Steen Langstrup

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly.

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.