Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths — biases, fears, courage, values and dreams — do or do not impact the daily work of others.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.