Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.

Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.

I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe visualize it, but leave it alone. A

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.