“Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.”

“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”

“Everything changes when you wake up in the morning and decide to own today. It will not be taken from you by anyone else, it will be yours”

“By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.”

“This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.”

“I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in…That's what everyone should do with their lives…stand up for what they believe in, or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else.”

“Living with kids is like living in a frat house… everything's broken, nobody sleeps, and there's alot of throwing up”

“Your mind is what makes everything else work.”

“If your faith is the foundation of all that you do, it actually enchances everything else and gives you a greater joy to experience everything else because everything is ordered properly.”

“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.”