I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.

I know that I am absolutely blessed beyond belief!

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.