You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness

Awaken my spirit.Awaken my soul.Awaken my strength.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Never once does Snow White herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.