There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.

In our process of spiritual maturity, our faith needs to attain bigger dimensions

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

Stubborn, snarly male.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.