When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.