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

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 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.

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

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.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Until you truly let go, until you truly form humility, can you find empathy and in that empathy you find contact and in that contact you find out who you truly are, and who the people are around you.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

More than blood passes through the human heart.

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.