A lot of things inspire me - especially pain.

The past can be changed by the future.

Rock saved me. You can break drums and scream out loud - if you do that in the street you get arrested.

If you really believe and really make a commitment, anything can happen.

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.

Everything is legit onstage. You can go crazy. I can express my anger. I can cry. Whoa, this is the coolest place!

If I die, I'm going to die onstage.

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love

If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.

If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.