I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

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.

Acquiring new knowledge has been crucial for survival over the millennia.

An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.