“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

“I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.”

“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

“Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.”

“I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.”

“In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.”

“Give light and people will find the way.”

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”

“The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.”

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

“Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.”

“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”

“What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.”

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

“'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.”