I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

Procrastination is definitely not your friend of your God's given destiny. It is nothing but a dream stealer.

Without Christ Jesus, I am nothing.

Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Think higher, feel deeper.

Dade Kincaid is not afraid of the things of which the world is made.

[On plastic surgery:] When I die, God won't know me. There are no two parts of my body the same age.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.