I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

...You know what I mean?

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?