Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

War kills everybody, including the ones who live.

When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.

You don’t have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.