If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

They saw their injured country's woe.

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

I am not a good cue card reader.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

Surveys show that surveys never lie.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.