Most people do not know themselves. The real you is not that person you are when times are great, the real you shows when everything goes wrong. Can you hold on, can you keep pushing or do you quit?

It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?

Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.

GOD is so clear, He is invisible.

A feeling that He's right here with you or that you're miles apart, is the difference of a prayer with love, or with an absence of the heart.

Even without a kiss, this moment is perfect, and you wouldn't trade it for anything.

You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

I'm never going to say the word "retire." If I feel like having a match when I'm 70 years old and I think I can go out there and tear it up, then I'm going to do it.

What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises.

The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929.