"God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross."

“I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.”

“Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel? Always try to see life around ya as if you'd just come out of a tunnel.”

“The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

“Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com

“Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] Cuarón, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.”

Source : "'Children of Men'". www.salon.com. December 25, 2006.

“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”

“The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.”

“The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.”