Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was

When you risk nothing, you risk never truly living!

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

What's everybody's business is nobody's business.

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.