It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

Again its time to pray for peace.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Never compete, create.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.