The purpose of it all is love.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

Rumo!" said Rumo. "That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke." "You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly. "No, no." Smyke chuckled.

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

::I am yours, beloved. As you are mine. For all of eternity…::

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.