"I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion."

“As you get older, your songwriting starts to become less and less about you, and especially when you have kids and a family. You start to see the world through other people's eyes a lot more to the point where it's hard to go back and relate to that "me against the world" perspective that I think a lot of my earlier songs were about. It's not so much about "me against the world," it's, how do you make the best possible future for your kids to grow up in?”

“I always knew I wanted to do it [broadcast]. I was always playing [sports] and I talked a lot too.”

“An evil gain equals a loss.”

“I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.”

“Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.”

Source : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1991). “Insights of a Himalayan pilgrim”, Dharma Pub

“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”

Source : "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

“I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.”

Source : "Exclusive: Al Walser's shock EDM Grammy nom is 'decades' of work" by Akshay Bhansali, www.mtv.com. December 7, 2012.

“This Christmas, as the spirit of the season permeates our hearts, let us do something that expresses our feelings in an outward way, showing that we understand that the babe born in Bethlehem is the real Redeemer.”