Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.