I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Money can cloud your vision.

The Bible opens with a tragedy and ends in a triumph.

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.