Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

What one cannot, another can.