Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore.

There's always a price for what you want.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

A whole other generation is coming up to me now - anywhere from 8 to 22 years old - wanting me to sign autographs. They think Journey was awesome.

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

When I get this kind of support, I feel validated in my decision to stand up for myself.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.