“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.

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

I’d only started noticing that something had gone wrong when I got a call from Naomi [Campbell], she called me and said, “You gotta do something about it, it’s really bad, they’re not using any models of color.”

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit.

The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon “that” which remains when it is gone.

Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they’re gone. Look at me at 50, I’m going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.