When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.

...I experienced a sudden ache -- part desolation, part panic -- to observe the speed with which this mate, this familiar, was transforming herself into a separate person.

Haste is from the Devil.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

People on dates shouldn't even be allowed out in public.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.