Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

When a thought takes one's breath away a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Take for example the African jungle the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old the sick the wounded the weak the very young but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey you had better be strong.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home it starts with the parental influence.

The great and abiding lesson of American history particularly the cold war is that the engine of capitalism the individual is mightier than any collective.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.