I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

She gives the night its dreams.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.

We're going to be eternally optimistic that the Senate is going to get their work done.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.