The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing ''Perfect'' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

I don't like to fight.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

I like to eat cheese out of a bowl everyday.