We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

God gives strength to the weak.God grace is the power for godly living.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Charles, I lost the bet.

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.