The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Never let your dreams go away.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.

We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too!

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.