I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.

You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.

Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?

I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can't always speak together.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.

Each project changes you a bit.

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.