Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
The woman in you is the worry in me.
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
There’s something in everyone only they know.
You can’t just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you.
If you’re gonna live, then live it up. If you’re gonna give, then give it up. If you’re gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you’re gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.