I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Dustin Hoffman

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Jeremy Rifkin

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Samuel Johnson

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

Simon Sinek

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Henny Youngman

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.

Steve Maraboli

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.

Steve Maraboli

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

John Grisham

I can't give a Professor love!

J.K. Rowling