Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

We are bound by nothing except belief.

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?