I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

Show me a man who mistakes patience for weakness and I’ll show you a fool.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.