“It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.”

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

It’s dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. You know, to get better and better.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

If perfect’s what you’re searching for, then just stay the same.

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that’s the secret of all the success that’s happened (for me).

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I’m a happy man.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.

Be in control. Know who you are. And don’t try to be different just to be different.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line.

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

My mama couldn’t give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but there is no such thing as Death at all.

Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others.