We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit

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.

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

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.

If we think about each other’s feelings, then we’re never alone.

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.