If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

I don't even call myself a Christian.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you.It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself

Too many people are counting on you to cross that finish line. Please don't disappoint yourself and them.

Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders

The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

Discipline yourself - so others don't have to.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.