I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

I love America, and I love living here.

That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

True success cannot be achieved until you have experienced failure

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

Passion never fails....

I think whenever any guys come along they're intimidated, and they don't really talk that much unless I talk to them.

Life—God—in its essence is vibration.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

How to be the best that you can be

Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.