Some things will never change.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

All the music I write is a search for myself.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.