I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

Don't be afraid to be different.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.

I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.