My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It's just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.