Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.

It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

What if?..What if I am all to see?What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everydayAnd there is no better way?What then?

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Live dead. Alive to Christ, dead to self.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.