"When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom."

“The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love...”

“I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.”

“I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.”

“Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.”

“Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it. It's not really an effort. It's how I write songs.”

“But then I thought, ‘I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their idealized body image,' and so I think that was the connection for me. I saw that people wanted to have their limbs off with equally as much degree of obsession and need.””

“Short form media is reductionist by nature.”

“Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.”

Source : Peter Burwash (2007). “The Key to Great Leadership: Rediscovering the Principles of Outstanding Service”, p.140, Torchlight Publishing