The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.

Art does not explain.

I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

If you don't break your own standards, you will not reach new heights and levels. It is by stretching our limits that we move beyond boundaries. Keep improving!

Forest deep, silent bellsThere's a secret no one tellsValley quiet, water stillLynburns watching on the hillApples red, corn goldAlmost everyone grows old

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!