When they say the sky’s the limit to me that’s really true

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me...

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts–such is the duty of the artist.

His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to...

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world...

I think as a society we forget that men also have daddy issues, they’ve also had bad childhoods, they’re vulnerable beings.. They also need love. We are made to think men don’t have a hard...

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of ‘Stagefright Sympathy Sickness’.

I don’t have what it takes to inspire someone to become a “worldly” musician or rapper! I can’t use the power God gave me yesterday to work against the Kingdom God set up many years...

We’re all weird.

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show...

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can’t rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they’ve never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived...

I don’t want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they’re your mistakes.

I’ve probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

I am more than what they say I am.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

Unexplained isn’t a word it’s a statement of what it meant.And i guess in the real world that definition doesn’t exists in a conceptual way.

There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn’t see in the places that I should not go..

our love likestepping on to a planesitting down in a carwalking on unknown land will either take us to where we belongor throw us into darkness

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk...

In elementary school, in my lunchbox, I used to pack a saxophone. I could have been a chef, a culinary artist, and all that jazz.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life’s end.

I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder.

There is nothing as beautiful as a crooked streetlight or a ripped paper.There lies no beauty in being what someone designed you to be.

I am a musician, but I’m another type of musician.

All people are musicians” Wit countered. “The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Is the phrase ‘pay’ or ‘play the piper’I inquire, why’Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music likeLife savings for a mosh pit riotListen to a mixRock...

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn’t

Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.

I was so self-critical. I still am; but it’s not as bad anymore.

If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn’t be a jazz musician, I’d be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare.

That was when they noticed that every musician on the stage was wearing mourning black. That was when they shut up. And when the conductor raised his arms, it was not a symphony that filled...

You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one’s romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one’s imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring...

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

I’d rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I like the smell of my Grandma’s soap – I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators

You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something… Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver,...

They’ve got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.