It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

Moving forward requires that one first take a step.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Less smoking and more reading.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.