Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

When you appreciate the blessings in life, your soul rejoices.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy