Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.

the real tests of life can come a child’s way at any moment,

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Pain is the touchstone of all growth

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.

From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.