The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit - Qui nous va à vie.)

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

I definitely think moving around helped shape me and has helped me be a better player.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

It's important to accessorise. I always turn to the scarves, hats and sunglasses. But wearing too many accessories at once can look very bad.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.