You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

When you pray, your spirit begins to work and He will speak through your mind

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.