“I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.”

I’ve made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that’s gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Music is real; it’s something you can touch and feel. It moves you – the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you’re performing it. It’s not air, it’s not wind, it’s not anything like that. It’s solid. It’s thick. It’s like summertime in New York.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

I never had innocence.

Ted Kennedy’s achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.