When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song

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.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.

A belief may be larger than a fact.