“I never had innocence.”

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

It’s never really fun to have to cry in a scene, or anything like that. I just try to put myself in the characters position, and that helps. It’s never really fun, but at the same time

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

I was never born, I didnt die.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.

I never put a price on a child.