I wanted to be a professional drummer.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Do anything that might make the world a better place for someone

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

Work hard or don't work at all.

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

We are stronger together than we are alone.

If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.

As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Any man can turn traitor.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.