I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.

Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.

Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

How do you achieve excellence? 1. Mindset 2. Discipline 3. Commitment 4. Consistency

I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a weekend in the woods, I'm sorer than after a week at the gym!

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.