I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

Grace is goodness.

Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

"His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.