Life started getting good when I started making money.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.