These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life.

This isn't just a food product---it is a lifestyle change that encourages you to step out of your comfort zone.

I never went dancing again.

With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.

he says : " please don't shoot me for this " and he kissed me .

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.