Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.

Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from.

Truth is always a factual right...It is not always an absolute right...

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK.

God will defeat the great infidels.

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.