Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Walking beside you I want for nothing.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

In other words, God Himself will prepare the man to meet these trials. Joseph found himself in this situation

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.