Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

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The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

Every day I pray about all I do.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive.

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.