Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.