I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.

Share, share, share your experience, feelings, anxiety.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.