You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it.

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.