I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs.

Beauty and grace command the world.

Wisdom is the closest to foolishness, a person can become so wise it leads him to become foolish.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

I want you to channel Jessica Rabbit and give him a show.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Real prayer is communion with God

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.