I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

When the mind is peaceful, hearts will bloom with love.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

I don't even think about fame at all.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

What you think is real is your reality.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.