I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.

There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.