I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

Progress is a set of assumptions.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.