Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.
I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.
You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.
There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
You have to realize I grew up in a real hockey town. And there I was wearing bow ties and watching the gayest movies on the face of Earth, like 'Clueless.'
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.
When dreams come true, you won't realize unless they were dreams of bad fate.
