I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

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.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

Breathe Through the Pain, It Always Gets Easier with Time.

If you take care of everything inside of you, God will take care of everything outside of you.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.