Just do what you love.

There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

People just want honest music.

Make music that you truly enjoy and it shows.

Be honest in your music.

When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.

I just try and focus on having fun on the road and making the best music I can.

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.

I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.

Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.

It's clear your marriage is a happy one Your love is solid to the core May the years ahead be happy ones Each one happier than before

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.