I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Never was a blind person blinded by the light that overwhelms his skin but blinded by the darkness within

Oh, sorry. I’m not . . . uh . . . interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

Once I graduated that's when I grew my 'infamous' beard. I trim it every once in awhile but that's about it.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.