I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

To teach is to learn twice.

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

I used everything you gave me.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.