I know that I am absolutely blessed beyond belief!

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.

You are here because Fate invited you. You cannot go back the way you came. I suggest you go forward instead.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.