I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that's right now.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.