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

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.

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.

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

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

But the lost one is with you.Her tenderness strengthens you, Her gaiety uplifts you, Her honor purifies you.More than memory, The lost one is found.

Those who marry before love "Manage Love" and those who love before marriage, “Manage Marriage".

Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

If you want to do things, do things.

Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.