I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.

I'm always going to have a story to tell.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

I am human, all too bloody human.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.