Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

The sign brings customers.

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

When in doubt, delete it.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.