People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful.

If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect.

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.

Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless.

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.