I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.