Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling fountains splashing. Weirs waterfalls tumbling gushing.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

A real gentleman even if he loses everything he owns must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are and not who she wanted us to be.

My mom's one of 13 siblings and they all got six kids and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings and more recently with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

I've never had siblings I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.