If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.