Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.

I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn’t I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn’t want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

Democracy is in conflict with individual freedom.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

God enters through the wound.

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.

People have kind of latched on with my personality and how I play golf and how I carry myself. It seems like every town we go to, I'm experiencing newer things with these types of fans.

Free will is an empty term.