There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I believe that music is God's voice.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

No disrespect' is a world away from respect--and admiration.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart...

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.