Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.

The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...

I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

Remind yourself that when things don't go right, everything will be OK. And if you think that, then everything will be.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.