I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

I try to only worry about things I have control over.

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.