I want to create something that you haven't heard lyrically before. It's part of my job, and even though some of my songs are love songs, I tend to talk about love in different ways.

No one chose to be part of a love. You don't choose it. It's not a decision that you make.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?

Redemption in Christ Jesus is the grace rebirth.

It's just overwhelming just knowing your dream is here in front of you.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

Music will save the world.

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.