What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.

God's grace is sufficient for us to overcome any situation,

Giving feels fantastic and for there to be a Giver, there must be a Receiver, so allowing yourself to receive is an act of love.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.