If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I believe that music is God's voice.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.

The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.

We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

An upbraided morsell never choaked any.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.