Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun

In a marriage, you and your partner come first.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.