I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Your true destiny on earth will always be greater than your best positive imagination of your future.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.