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The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.

Knowledge is God, respect it to get respect.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

It’s Adria’s face I see when I think of home.

I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.