Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

Irony takes nothing away from pathos.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.