Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Times change and you have to adapt.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Having a passion for Christ and that's really what gives life a true meaning.

Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe.

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Every great person educates themselves.

Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.