I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.

I don't view myself as any kind of celebrity, but we as people are called to do those things and I am just lucky I have a microphone and can reach more people sometimes.

I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.

I think just as a person, if you say you follow Christ, you have to stand up for the injustices that are going on in the world.

I can't believe I'm in New Zealand, I can't wait to play. It's just so beautiful out here and so awesome.

Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.

In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.

I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.