My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate.

Don't be preoccupied with something that drags your mind downhill. Be someone who could be destined to shine and can have the ability reach ultimate goals for the future."

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Your heart is like glass, if it breaks, it's pretty hard to put it back together again.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.