If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.