It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. 'Babe' was a demo. The demo became the hit record, including all the background vocals, which were done by me.
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
Playing drums is how I communicate. It's how I speak to people. That's my God-given gift.
You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.
I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.
Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.
Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift.
One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
My mom gave me a Chanel dress when I was younger. I felt special. I think anybody feels special in Chanel.
I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.
I would never dispute that I've been given a gift by God. That's something I've been raised to believe. I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing, and I know that I can act.
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.
I've only been blessed with one talent, unfortunately, and that's being able to sing a wee bit.
It's a gift, and a blessing, just to have a voice. And I'm proud that people do appreciate it, you know?
I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.
Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.
I'm blessed with a gift from God. When you're blessed, you have an advantage. You know you're not going to get beat when you're fighting with a gift. You're fighting with something that God has given you.
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
God has blessed me with the ability to play football.
You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.
