I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, ” he added jokingly.

If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?