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

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.

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 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.

Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.