I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.

Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.