"Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul."

“You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door”

“For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose”, p.61

“I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people laugh, and being stupid, so I never thought I'd be doing a job where you always have to look nice, and polished and sophisticated.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”

“If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.”

“Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.”

“My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined. And I have had a ball doing it.”

“Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.”