I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

May the Lord ignite the flame of light in your soul.

Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.

It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

I want my army to be an army of the living God.