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.

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.

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.

Let us doom and gloom not creep into our day and lust for life not wither away. With the future as brother-in-arms, steps in the unknown should not frighten. ("Steps in the unknown" )

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

Plato's cave is full of freaks.

Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.