[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of g….

Live dead. Alive to Christ, dead to self..

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something..

Listen to any self doubt for anything that needs to be addressed, address it, and keep rocking!.

Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order..

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life..

I really love Norah Jones..

Never build yourself up by tearing another down..

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free..

I'd say I am partial to women..

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there..

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person..

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men..

Just make music; don't talk about politics..

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown..

The old Lena is dead..

All you will get from me is death..

In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, becaus….

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody..