Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

Be very, very careful what you put into that head of yours, because you will never, ever get it out.