"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

"Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song."

"You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'"

"My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me."

"Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?"