The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.

I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.

It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

The aim of living is life itself.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.