Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. 
No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are. 
Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors. 
If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys. 
I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else. 
I don't really like to explain my songs. 
I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving. 
I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing. 
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be. 
Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music. 
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free. 
You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves. 
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true. 
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. 
I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us. 
I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish. 
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy. 
Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love. 
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night. 
You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed. 
Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts. 
I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion. 
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. 
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity. 
There's a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it. 
The most important battle is one to conquer yourself. 
My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones. 
When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour. 