I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.