The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.