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

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.

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

One of my pa...friends... isn't doing very well.""...Is your friend dying?""...Yes honey, he is.""That's sad.

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors.

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.