I was a dreamer. When I was on stage I didn't have to think about whether I could pay the rent. I was just having a great time.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.