Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

You are way awesome than you think you are. Don't forget about your awesomeness today

I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.

In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.

Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?