I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

I'm lucky to get to do the job that I do. I'm really lucky to be able to work in so many different areas of this industry.

The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts - because they have to be tough to protect it.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.