It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

You don't think your way back to joy

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.

New rules are made when you break one

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.

Why assume that to look is to see?