I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.