The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

A band is like a family. There's love and hate.

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

Music is a potent energy force.

Just ask yourself what record you played over and over again when you were depressed or what record made you really happy? Those will never change and you should never be embarrassed by it.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self love.

Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

France does not practice revenge.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.