I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore.

There's always a price for what you want.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

A whole other generation is coming up to me now - anywhere from 8 to 22 years old - wanting me to sign autographs. They think Journey was awesome.

Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

As many serve the Virgin as serve God.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

I have two sons, ages 38 and 25 in Texas, and my wife and seven year old daughter here in Nashville. On New Year's I'd rather be with them.

Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.