“I like to bike a lot and do some 300s here and there. Really, I love to bike though. I like being outside and moving around, seeing the good scenery around Miami and such.”

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth’s air.

When you don’t know what to do, do what’s right and do what’s in front of you. But not necessarily what’s right in front of you.

The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

If I’m going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don’t have it here. If you’re not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.

You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.

I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

I came from a big family – two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.