The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful, " then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

Time is the king of men.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

This aggression will not stand

Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn't need a new toy.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.