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 feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

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

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.

What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.