I pick things up in different cities, so my wardrobe is kind of a souvenir chest.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God

Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.

My dreams are all of fire – mother says dreams usually go by opposites, so does that mean the world will end in ice?

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Attraction is not a choice.

There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.