You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

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.

Oh, a grenade. But where is the bamboo bazooka?

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.