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

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.

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.

Because we are all connected, we are meant to share our "story" with the world. It strengthens both the story teller and the listener.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

Sorry to disappoint you but I don’t even watch the Olympics no more.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.