For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.

I know that I am absolutely blessed beyond belief!

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

The moment is a miracle.

Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Anytime there is any lyrical meaning or combination in my mixes, it's very blatant. I'm not trying to make any statement or anything like that.

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.