There's tons of external and internal pressures that we deal with but live for God and you'll be alright.

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

It's always an honor and a scary experience to sing new music.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take