True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.