Without desire, one is a walking cadaver.

The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

Of course, marketing and publicity does an amazing job of prepping everybody for that, but there's nothing like sitting there and experiencing the movie.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.