We all assume the worst the best we can.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

There are good places to play and bad places.

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

A fool stumbles when he walks

You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

You are here to deliver a divine gift to the world.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

President Obama finally has his own personal Twitter account. Even John McCain said, 'Welcome to the Internet, grandpa.'

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.