It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

Thinking Breeds Inventions and Innovations.

A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Relax. Breathe in deep. Hold it. Let it out. Loosen your shoulders. Smile. Close your eyes. You'll be surprised at how many voices you'll hear, whispering sweet encouragement into your ear.

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.